Insufficient, misleading
To the Editor:
I just received my “Special Election
Newsletter,” sent by Bucks
County at a cost of $52,000, which urges me “to read the information provided so that you can confidently
go to the polls.” Unfortunately, the information provided was insufficient and downright misleading in its description
of the new voting machines.
The voting machine sample ballot superimposed
in one small corner was barely legible, and the polling place location guide is useless unless the voter knows the number
of their voting district, which most do not.
Far worse, though, was the statement about
the voting system we use: “Your vote is recorded in multiple ways, both digital and paper, to ensure the accuracy for
tabulation, auditing and recounts.” Those multiple ways, digital and paper, are produced by the software inside the
voting machine. There is no way to know if our votes are being tabulated as cast. The only paper produced by the machine is
after the polls have closed, showing the total vote count. Since there is no paper record of individual votes, in a recount
or audit the voting machine would be asked to “count” again.
As you stand in long lines today be thankful
that Commissioners Cawley and Martin so wisely chose to send you a newsletter instead of renting 150 more voting machines,
because that's the number that could have been rented for $52,000.
Dore' Vorum
Doylestown Township
http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/320-11042008-1615807.html
